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Asia-Pacific Regional S.pombe Meeting 2008, Singapore.
25-27 July, 2008
Biopolis and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL)

     
Confirmed keynote lecture speakers:

Richard Losick (Harvard University, MA, USA)
Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, NY, USA)
Randy Schekman (University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA)
Masayuki Yamamoto (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
Wang Yue (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore)


* Keynote lectures are opened to the public.

Meeting Program (25-27 July 2008)

 		   
     
DAY 1: 25 JULY 2008, FRIDAY
REGISTRATION 3:00 - 7:00pm  
 
Bus 3:30pm Transportation from hotel to TLL
 
3:00 - 7:00pm Registration Name badge and meeting program collection at TLL, 1 Research Link
 
SESSION 1 5:00pm - 7:15pm Keynote Lectures
 
Session Chair Stephen COHEN  
 
5:00 - 5:45pm Keynote lecture
Richard LOSICK 		Asymmetric division and morphogenesis in a bacterium
 
5:45 - 6:30pm Keynote lecture
Masayuki YAMAMOTO 		Regulation of mitosis-meiosis decision in fission yeast
 
6:30 - 7:15pm Keynote lecture
Randy SCHEKMAN 		Sorting signal and coat protein-dependent traffic of membrane proteins from the trans Golgi to the cell surface in yeast
 
DINNER 7:30 - 9:00pm
(including tour of TLL labs, optional and on a first-come-first-served basis)
 
BUS 9:30pm
 Transportation from TLL to hotel
 
   
     
DAY 2: 26 JULY 2008, SATURDAY
BUS 7:30am Transportation from hotel to Biopolis
 
Breakfast 8:00am
 
REGISTRATION 8:30am  
 
8:30am Registration Name badge and meeting program collection at Matrix, Level 4, Biopolis
 
SESSION 2 9:00 - 10:40am  
 
Session Chair Yoshinori WATANABE  
 
9:00 - 9:20am Claude ANTONY EMBL Microtubular Network 3D Reconstruction by using Electron Tomogrpahy in Fission Yeast
 
9:20 - 9:40am Keita AOKI
National Institute of Genetics 		Construction and observation of S.japonicus mutants
 
9:40 - 10:00am Jurg BAHLER
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 		Dynamic Repertoire of the Fission Yeast Transcriptome Surveyed at Single Nucleotide Resolution
 
10:00 - 10:20am Huei Mei CHEN
State University of New York at Stony Brook 		Coupled Control of Splicing and 3' End Processing in Meiotic Gene Regulation
 
10:20 - 10:40am Mohan BALASUBRAMANIAN
TLL 		Membrane-Anchored Node-Independent Assembly of Actomyosin Rings in Fission Yeast
 
TEA BREAK 10:40 - 11:10am  
 
SESSION 3 11:10am - 12:30pm  
 
Session Chair Hisao MASUKATA  
 
11:10 - 11:30am Miguel COELHO
MPI-CBG 		Fission Yeast is Immortal!
 
11:30 - 11:50am Jian Hua LIU
GIS 		Temporal occupancies of the MBF activator Rep2 play a role in the Cds1-mediated S-phase checkpoint function
 
11:50am - 12:10pm Ikumi FUJITA
University of Tokyo 		Functional analysis of the dynactin complex during the horse-tail movement
 
12:10 - 12:30pm Kanji FURUYA
National Institute of Genetics 		Multi Step Activation of Genomic Stability Pathway by DNA Checkpoint Mechanis in Fission Yeast
 
LUNCH/POSTER 12:30 - 3:00pm Buffet lunch and poster viewing
 
SESSION 4 3:00 - 4:20pm  
 
Session Chair Snezhana OLIFERENKO  
 
3:00 - 3:20pm Monika GULLEROVA
University of Oxford 		Cohesin Complex, which Plays a Role in Transcription Termination, is Recruited to Convergent Genes in S.Pombe by Transient Heterochromatin Formation
 
3:20 - 3:40pm Silke HAUF
Max Planck Society 		A New Checkpoint-Independent Function of Bub1 and Bub3 in Mitosis
 
3:40 - 4:00pm Frans HOCHSTENBACH
Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam 		-Glucan Biosynthesis in Fission YeastαCell Wall
 
TEA BREAK 4:00 - 4:30pm  
 
SESSION 5 4:30 - 7:00pm (Keynote Lecture at 5:45pm)
 
Session Chair Claude ANTONY  
 
4:30 - 4:50pm Ronak LAKHANI
University of Sussex 		Investigating Cytoplasm-To-Vacuole Targeting Pathway Genes in Schizosacchromyces Pombe
 
4:50 - 5:10pm R Krishna Murthy KARUTURI
GIS 		Flexible-Time Firing Origin Model for DNA Replication
 
5:10 - 5:30pm Nicola MAGHELLI
MPI-CBG 		Self-Organization of Dynein Motors and Microtubules Generates Meiotic Nuclear Oscillations
 
Session Chair Nancy JENKINS  
 
5:45 - 6:30pm Keynote lecture
Paul NURSE 		Genomic Approaches to the Cell Cycle and Cell Form
 
DINNER/POSTER 6:30 - 8:30pm Buffet dinner and poster viewing
  (including tour of GIS labs, optional and on a first-come-first-served basis)
 
BUS 9:30pm
 Transportation from Biopolis to hotel
 
   
     
DAY 3: 27 JULY 2008, SUNDAY
BUS 7:30am Transportation from hotel to Biopolis
 
Breakfast 8:00am
 
REGISTRATION 8:30am  
 
8:30am Registration Name badge and meeting program collection at Matrix, Level 4, Biopolis
 
SESSION 6 9:00 - 10:40am  
 
Session Chair Takashi TODA  
 
9:00 - 9:20am Hisao MASUKATA
Osaka University 		Regulation of DNA Replication by Cell Cycle and Chromatin Structures
 
9:20 - 9:40am Hiroshi MURAKAMI
Nagoya City University 		Mei4p Coordinates the Onset of Meiosis I by Negatively Regulating wee1+ in Fission Yeast
 
9:40 - 10:00am Yota MURAKAMI
Kyoto University 		Reguration of Heterochromati Functions by Phosphrylation
 
10:00 - 10:20am Kentaro NAKANO
University of Tsukuba 		Functional analysis of a novel ADF/cofilin-super family protein involved in the organization of actin cytoskeleton in fission yeast
 
10:20 - 10:40am Hironori NIKI
National Institute of Genetics 		Trinal Fission of Nucleolus during Mitosis
 
TEA BREAK 10:40 - 11:10am  
 
SESSION 7 11:10am - 12:50pm  
 
Session Chair Silke HAUF  
 
11:10 - 11:30am Yuen Chyao LING, and
Rahul THADANI
TLL 		Sustained attachment of the minus ends of sliding microtubules is required for efficient assembly of dynamic linear arrays
 
11:30 - 11:50am Rajesh PATKAR
TLL 		Fission yeast: a suitable organism for efficient screening of biologically active fungal metabolites
 
11:50am - 12:10pm Masamitsu SATO
University of Tokyo 		Regulation of Spindle Microtubule in Mitosis and Meiosis
 
12:10 - 12:30pm Mizuki SHIMANUKI
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Promotion Corporation 		Genes Required for Maintaining Cell Viability in the G0 State
 
12:30 - 12:50pm Kazuhiro SHIOZAKI
University of California 		Regulation of the Target of Rapamycin Complex 2 Signaling in Cellular Stress Response
 
LUNCH/POSTER 12:50 - 3:00pm Buffet lunch and poster viewing
 
SESSION 8 3:00 - 4:20pm  
 
Session Chair Jurg BAHLER  
 
3:00 - 3:20pm Rania SIAM
American University in Cairo 		S. Pombe Rad4/Cut5 Role in Spindle Checkpoint Pathway
 
3:20 - 3:40pm Takashi TODA
Cancer Research UK 		Spatio-Temporal Regulation of Microtubule Organization
 
3:40 - 4:00pm Yasuhiro TSUTSUI
National Institute of Genetics 		A DNA polymerase a accessory protein, Mcl1, is required for propagation of centromere structures in fission yeast
 
4:00 - 4:20pm Yoshinori WATANABE
University of Tokyo 		The Primary Requirement of SWI6/HP1 for Meiotic Chromosome Segregation
 
4:20 - 4:40pm Caroline WILKINSON
Paterson Institute 		Multiple Pathways Differentially Regulate Global Oxidative Stress Responses in Fission Yeast
 
TEA BREAK 4:40 - 5:10pm  
 
SESSION 9 5:15 - 6:00pm  
 
Session Chair Neil CLARKE  
 
5:15 - 6:00pm Keynote lecture
WANG Yue 		Candida albicans hyphal development - from signal sensing to polarity control
 
BUS 6:15pm
 Transportation from Biopolis to Gala Dinner
 
GALA DINNER & NIGHT SAFARI TOUR 6:40 - 10:00pm
 Ulu Ulu Safari Restaurant
Night Safari tour
 
BUS 10:30pm
 Transportation from Gala Dinner to
1. Hotel
2. Jurong East MRT Station


   

 

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